Providing Resources to Help Students Succeed
About Me
Perk Musacchio: Founder, Owner and "Strategy Queen"
• 37 years in public education at a highly ranked, local school district
• 2nd and 3rd grade elementary classroom teacher
• RTII (Response to Intervention and Instruction) teacher
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• Special education teacher
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• Instructional support teacher
Perk has over 45 years of experience educating students with varying cognitive abilities, emotional needs, learning styles and disabilities, English as a Second Language, and different levels of autism. Working with these diverse populations has provided her with extensive experience in the areas of curriculum and program development, instructional techniques, behavior management strategies, crisis prevention and intervention, leadership, and professional development and consultation. In addition, she taught a graduate level course titled, Enhancing Brain Development in Children.
After retiring, Perk started her own educational consulting company, Skills2Soar, LLC. She developed the PeaceWalk®, a conflict resolution mat, which is now produced and marketed by Youthlight, Inc. Perk co-authored three books
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A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation: Recommendations, Relationships, Resumes, and Interviews,
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No Manual? No Problem! Strategies and Interventions to Help Your Child Thrive, and
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The Struggle is Real...But There is Hope!
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Former parents, students, and colleagues affectionately call Perk, "the strategy queen," and would tell you that one of her strengths is the ability to do the necessary, "detective work," to identify what is getting in the way of the child succeeding and then, most importantly, work with colleagues, the student and family to design a plan that will address the individual learning needs so that the child can move forward and become a successful and thriving adult.
Perk has also authored a monthly column called, Raising Great Kids, conducted numerous training workshops at local schools and churches, provided testimony to a Pennsylvania state level committee on youth mental health, and presented at the Innovative Summit in NYC.
How It Began
Strategy Queen to the Rescue!
One Halloween, I came to school dressed as the "Strategy Super Hero" with my superman cape full of strategy words and items. From then on, I became known as the "Strategy Queen". I firmly believe that all children can learn, and learning can be fun!
I hope that my passion and enthusiasm for learning and teaching are contagious. I am committed to guiding, supporting, and inspiring others to reach their personal, professional and lifelong goals.